From: Felix Fietkau Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:01:53 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mac80211: improve the txq scheduling API to deal with driver buffered packets X-Git-Url: http://git.lede-project.org./?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ca9ad880f29f3ef9eee9bb0342610d6f879e7770;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fansuel.git mac80211: improve the txq scheduling API to deal with driver buffered packets Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau --- diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-make-ieee80211_schedule_txq-schedule-empty-.patch b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-make-ieee80211_schedule_txq-schedule-empty-.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a0a65f35a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys/358-mac80211-make-ieee80211_schedule_txq-schedule-empty-.patch @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +From: Felix Fietkau +Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 14:26:59 +0100 +Subject: [PATCH] mac80211: make ieee80211_schedule_txq schedule empty TXQs + +Currently there is no way for the driver to signal to mac80211 that it should +schedule a TXQ even if there are no packets on the mac80211 part of that queue. +This is problematic if the driver has an internal retry queue to deal with +software A-MPDU retry. + +This patch changes the behavior of ieee80211_schedule_txq to always schedule +the queue, as its only user (ath9k) seems to expect such behavior already: +it calls this function on tx status and on powersave wakeup whenever its +internal retry queue is not empty. + +Also add an extra argument to ieee80211_return_txq to get the same behavior. + +This fixes an issue on ath9k where tx queues with packets to retry (and no +new packets in mac80211) would not get serviced. + +Fixes: 89cea7493a346 ("ath9k: Switch to mac80211 TXQ scheduling and airtime APIs") +Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau +--- + +--- a/include/net/mac80211.h ++++ b/include/net/mac80211.h +@@ -6090,26 +6090,42 @@ static inline void ieee80211_txq_schedul + { + } + ++void __ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, ++ struct ieee80211_txq *txq, bool force); ++ + /** + * ieee80211_schedule_txq - schedule a TXQ for transmission + * + * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw() + * @txq: pointer obtained from station or virtual interface + * +- * Schedules a TXQ for transmission if it is not already scheduled. ++ * Schedules a TXQ for transmission if it is not already scheduled, ++ * even if mac80211 does not have any packets buffered. ++ * ++ * The driver may call this function if it has buffered packets for ++ * this TXQ internally. + */ +-void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq); ++static inline void ++ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq) ++{ ++ __ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq, true); ++} + + /** + * ieee80211_return_txq - return a TXQ previously acquired by ieee80211_next_txq() + * + * @hw: pointer as obtained from ieee80211_alloc_hw() + * @txq: pointer obtained from station or virtual interface ++ * @force: schedule txq even if mac80211 does not have any buffered packets. ++ * ++ * The driver may set force=true if it has buffered packets for this TXQ ++ * internally. + */ + static inline void +-ieee80211_return_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq) ++ieee80211_return_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct ieee80211_txq *txq, ++ bool force) + { +- ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq); ++ __ieee80211_schedule_txq(hw, txq, force); + } + + /** +--- a/net/mac80211/tx.c ++++ b/net/mac80211/tx.c +@@ -3655,8 +3655,9 @@ out: + } + EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_next_txq); + +-void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, +- struct ieee80211_txq *txq) ++void __ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, ++ struct ieee80211_txq *txq, ++ bool force) + { + struct ieee80211_local *local = hw_to_local(hw); + struct txq_info *txqi = to_txq_info(txq); +@@ -3664,7 +3665,8 @@ void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee8 + spin_lock_bh(&local->active_txq_lock[txq->ac]); + + if (list_empty(&txqi->schedule_order) && +- (!skb_queue_empty(&txqi->frags) || txqi->tin.backlog_packets)) { ++ (force || !skb_queue_empty(&txqi->frags) || ++ txqi->tin.backlog_packets)) { + /* If airtime accounting is active, always enqueue STAs at the + * head of the list to ensure that they only get moved to the + * back by the airtime DRR scheduler once they have a negative +@@ -3684,7 +3686,7 @@ void ieee80211_schedule_txq(struct ieee8 + + spin_unlock_bh(&local->active_txq_lock[txq->ac]); + } +-EXPORT_SYMBOL(ieee80211_schedule_txq); ++EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ieee80211_schedule_txq); + + bool ieee80211_txq_may_transmit(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, + struct ieee80211_txq *txq) diff --git a/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile b/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile index 387bd375d8..b39ea549ca 100644 --- a/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile +++ b/package/kernel/mt76/Makefile @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ PKG_LICENSE_FILES:= PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://github.com/openwrt/mt76 PKG_SOURCE_PROTO:=git -PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2019-03-16 -PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=223649049ac7cfd022bc7297eec2ed8cb2de507c -PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=60daf4a4584b4cd058f044928c32d97e0e91121b4b45832537187b0792c94216 +PKG_SOURCE_DATE:=2019-03-19 +PKG_SOURCE_VERSION:=e7bd802cf728f76ce42b6b7529db14e7fc027f0c +PKG_MIRROR_HASH:=93ad26c322fe06e57c321b9d6f4332a2a2d626a4adcfe316465216b5216fbec6 PKG_MAINTAINER:=Felix Fietkau PKG_BUILD_PARALLEL:=1